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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: struct iovec
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:28:49AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> We also have a wrong type for iov_len (should be size_t).

Um, it is size_t.

I note that making iov_base into a void* makes adjusting the
pointer much more painful, since you can't do arithmetic on
void*. There is lots of code in the system that assumes that
you can do arithmetic on iov_base...

Tony.

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